This is unacceptable in at least two contexts; role modeling and stewardship. The Board and Administration require students to hold themselves accountable to a code of ethics. The Board and Administration have an obligation to serve as role models of that accountability. That obligation needs neither explanation nor justification.

The Board and Administration will ask taxpayers to entrust nearly a half a BILLION dollars to their stewardship. Yet no one of them will be held honestly accountable to spend the money ethically.

If voters and taxpayers knew the truth, the outcome of the September bond issue might well be affected. They will cast their ballots unaware of the fact that, by their own choice, the leadership of APS is accountable only to the law, the lowest standard of acceptable conduct.

Voters will remain in the dark because the local media will not report the truth.